Just Trying To Make A Point

In Wisconsin: Man who threatened Obama sentenced.

A Wisconsin man was sentenced late today in federal court in Jackson to three years in prison for making a threat on the Internet to assassinate then-President-elect Barack Obama. Steven Joseph Christopher, 42, faced a maximum five years in prison.

But he had a good excuse:

He said he made the threat to gain attention for his cause that he is the second coming of Christ and the apocalypse is coming in 2012 and much of the world will be destroyed.